Thunderbird

General

Please see email

Addressbook UZH

• The address book is offline

Addressbook UZH - OUTDATED

• Thunderbird > Menu > Preferences > Preferences

• IMPORTANT: Replace Firstname Lastname with your UZH Fullname (typically your complete name, incl. any spaces).

• At the first search you need login with your UZH-Password.

Date / time format

• By default, the dates are shown with US locale

• It's possible to change the Thunderbird UI to f.e. German: Edit > Preferences > Language > English|French|German|Italian

• If the English is used and german date formating is wished, check: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customize-date-time-formats-thunderbird

  • In config editor (Edit > Preferences > Search: config > Config Editor) set:

    • intl.date_time.pattern_override.date_short - dd.MM.yyyy

    • intl.date_time.pattern_override.time_short - HH:mm

Subscribe folder (shared mailbox)

Show all folder

To automatically show all folder:

• In Thunderbird move the mouse over the account do a right mouse click and select 'Settings > Server Settings > Advanced > Show only subscribed folders=off

Individual subscription

If a new folder has been created (maybe via Zimbra, or on a shared mailbox via another user), and Thunderbird does not show the new folder automatically:

• Please update the 'folder subscription': on the account do a right mouse click and select 'Subscribe'.

• Subscribe all folder:

Default account

• If you click on a mailto link in webbrowser, thunderbird will be opened and you can start to write a mail.

• If you have multiple accounts, it might be useful to define the default account which acts as sender than.

• Open: Settings > Account Settings

• Select the new default account, define as 'default'

Add on

• https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-must-have-thunderbird-addons-25-more/

Installation: Tools > Add on and themes

• Tools > Add-on and Themes

Quick Folder

• https://quickfolders.org/index.html

Attach from Clipboard

• https://www.updatestar.com/dl/clipboard/clipboard.html

Export / Import Mails

• Expecially: Copy mail to clipboard

• https://github.com/thundernest/import-export-tools-ng

Probleme

3.5.23 / CR / Zugriff collected Adresse & Abfrage nach Passwort

• After a NFS server problem (on TL), several user complain about broken Thunderbird configuration.
• One user reports that the collected addresses not available anymore
• Other user reports that they have to supply their passwort frequently, even if they activate 'save password'.

• Solution: start clean-firefox-thunderbird.sh - this will restore the latest settings from the last snapshot.